Originally Posted by independent_loser_kid

Yeah, I know – they’re “grunge”. C’mon, “grunge” is just a lazy man’s way of saying ‘they’re from the Pacific Northwest’. While I can agree with Soundgarden and Pearl Jam being labeled “grunge”, I don't feel that Nirvana deserves the label. Nirvana’s sound, style and attitude is more fitting to the punk rock genre and, dammit, they contributed something positive to the music scene at a time when it was being ruled by the unoriginal, untalented ‘hair bands’ (Poison, Winger, Whitesnake, I’m talkin’ to you). For a few years, we had something exciting in the mainstream music world that was fresh and untainted by Corporate America. …and now the boy-bands, ‘debbie gibson’ clones, ‘rage against the machine’ clones and bubblegum pop-punksters rule the charts. God, I miss Kurt Cobain